Sue-Ann Levy: "... I've come to the conclusion too many Torontonians are spoiled whiners."

Back in my hometown and ready to get back to the grind. New start, new blog, right?

Since returning, I have been hopelessly distracted by the by election in St. Paul's, my one-time haunt.

While the Liberals have attracted a great candidate, Dr. Eric Hoskins, a founder of War Child Canada, world renowned humanitarian and public health specialist, the Tories have put forward quite a controversial choice in Sue-Ann Levy, a journalist with the Toronto Sun.

I spent this morning taking a look at some of Levy's fine writing in the Toronto Sun. Needless to say, there are some real keepers tucked in there:

On Toronto: "The fact is, I'm not the least bit proud to show off my city." (Sept, 2002) and I've discovered Toronto is not the "world class" city our naïve councillors believe it is" (June, 2006)

On Homelessness: She refers to our city's homelessness problem as a "homeless industry". She shockingly makes connections between homeless Torontonians and garbage clean up "Besides, what good is cleaning up the litter if we continue to allow the homeless and panhandlers to park themselves at every downtown street corner? (If I had my druthers, this Friday I’d trash the sleeping bags and the other paraphernalia they so boldly leave behind each day. " (April 2004)


And my favorite....
On preventing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Sue-Ann opposes Toronto's efforts to spread Canadian goodwill around the world. Specifically, she takes issue with a project that seeks to protect young women from the HIV virus.


Speechless!

Title is quoted from a 1999 column.